AMD to release an updated Radeon ProRender plug-in for Blender 2.81. AMD’s Radeon ProRender is a physically-based rendering engine that is built on Radeon Rays technology, which, AMD says, is a scalable ray tracing engine that uses open industry standards to harness GPU and CPU performance for swift, impressive results. Built on industry-standards, Radeon ProRender … [Read more...] about AMD’s holiday gift to the Blender community
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AMD joins Blockchain Gaming Alliance and teams with distribution companies
New startups Ultra and Robot Cache are building new distribution options for gamers. Remember when anyone who had a tech company had a blockchain strategy? It’s happening again, Batman. AMD has announced that it’s joining the Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA). The company says it is partnering with Robot Cache and Ultra to promote the development and proliferation of … [Read more...] about AMD joins Blockchain Gaming Alliance and teams with distribution companies
Nebula benchmarks the ray tracing competitors
Knowing how you stand up to the competition is critical. Last December, we told you about ray tracing startup, Nebula, in Montreal and the founder, Yann Clotioloman Yéo. The company has developed a physically based, unbiased stand-alone renderer with realtime DirectX 12 preview written in C++. It runs on Windows 10 (64-bit) and requires SSE4 to run. The program uses AMD … [Read more...] about Nebula benchmarks the ray tracing competitors
Benchmarking the Radeon Pro W5700
Performance: relative to its predecessor and the most comparable Nvidia offering. As is our practice when evaluating workstation-class graphics AIBs, we ran SPEC's Viewperf, in this case the newest version 13. Viewperf focuses workload on the graphics AIB, such that the rest of the system isn't (or at least shouldn't often be) the bottleneck. As a result, Viewperf will give a … [Read more...] about Benchmarking the Radeon Pro W5700
AMD reports Q3 2019 results: good news continues
Lisa Su is not tired of winning. Revenue for the quarter was up 18% from last quarter to $1.8 billion, GAAP profit was $120 million, 243% from last quarter. AMD’s third-quarter earnings results matched Wall Street’s expectations and surprised a few others with its jump in profits. AMD reported its quarterly results for calendar Q3 2019; revenues and operating income were up … [Read more...] about AMD reports Q3 2019 results: good news continues